Travel Quotes - Page 22

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.